Machine for sorting, counting, and packing coins



S. CHIGER Sept. 5, 1933.

MACHINE FOR SORTING, COUNTING, AND PACKING COINS Filed July 11, 1929 6 Sheets-Sheet 1 S. CHIGER Sept. 5, 1933.

MACHINE FOR SORTING, COUNTING, AND PACKING COINS Filed July 11, 1929 6 Sheets-Sheet 2 S. CHIGER Sept. 5, 1933.

MACHINE FOR SORTING, COUNTING, AND PACKING COINS Filed July 11, 1929 6 Sheets-Sheet 3 Illlll II I ullllll'll'llg Sept. 5, 1933.

s. CHIGER MACHINE FOR SOHTING, COUNTING, AND PACKING COINS Filed July 11, 1929 6 Sheets-Sheet 4 5L0. 5. LR 70 \V) P 1933. s. CHIGER 1,925,521

MACHINE FOR SORTING, COUNTING, AND PACKING COINS Filed July ll, 1929 6 Sheets-Sheet 5 lnvenfor:

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Patented Sept. 5, 1933 wires s 5k u it as *2 "J MACE-ENE FOR SQRTKNG, COUNTING, AND FCACEQEN G CQINS Siegmund Shiger, Germany, assignor to G. Z. Patentverwertung Alstiengesellschaft,

Glarus, Switzerland Application July 11, 1929, Serial No. 377,531,

in Germany it Claims.

My invention relates to a coin sorting, counting and packing machine, in which the necessary tubula'r containers which are to hold the coins to be packed are made from a strip of before or while the coins, for the purpose of sorting out the smaller coins, are moved over holes of less diameter than the particular coins to be packed, and in which a counting device aft 1' a predetermined number of coins have beensorted auto matically brings the rotatable coin-pusher to rest, thereupon closing the upp r end of the tubular container which then is dropped through a trap, whereby simultaneously another counting device is actuated. Meanwhile, the counting device first referred to brings the rotatable ccin pusher again into operation, and'the cycle of operations described is repeated.

The coin sorting, countin and packing machines now used have the disadvantage that as the sorting holes are provided in t bed plate, the machine can be used for only one of coin, and in the event of the coins being or equal size, thickness and weight, it is impossible to sort them out, and after the sorting, during the counting, the coins do not positively operate the count-- ing gear, resulting in errors.

By the present invention the aforesaid disadvantages are obviated in that the test and discharge holes are not arranged in the bed plate, but in slides whereby the machine is rendered suitable for different kinds of coins. Above the discharge hole is provided a magnet, the object of which is to sort coins of equal size according to their magnetic properties. For instance, Ger man fifty-pfennig coins are of the same size as German two pfennig coins and are composed in part of magnetic metal, whereas the two-pfennig coins are non-magnetic. Now if fifty-pfennig coins are to be counted by the counting mcchanism, they will be attached by the magnet and counted while passing over the disch rge hole, whereas the two-pfennig coins, because of their non-inagnetic composition will drop through the discharge hole and thus become separated.

In the accompanying drawings, showing by way of illustration one embodiment of my inachine, Fig. 1 is a sectio al elevation of the same, Fig. 2 a plan view, 3 a sectional elevation, the upper portion shot ng mechanism manufacturing the tubular containers and the lower portion a detail of the sorting, counting and packing machine; is a plan view of Fig. 3, Fig. 5 an elevation of 'the spindle, on which a tubular container is formed, Fig. 6 a

cross-section of the same, Fig. 7 a view of the November 7, 1928 spring-controlled ledge in the spindle, and Fig. 8 a C1OS-SLCtlOIl of the same. Fig. 9 shows the paper strip.

igures 10, 11 and 12 are detail views of the s for forming the tubular containers and reeding the same to the packing device;

at in said figure; ures 14. and 15 show, respectively, in elee bottom part of the tubular containers; ire i6 is a partial vertical section of the wheels shown in Figures land 2.

l is the tubular container which is filled with indicated at 2 to be sorted, counted and packed. The receptacle rests on the'base-plate which a disc 4 equipped with two or more pus-hers 5 is rotatably mounted. Each pusher 5 is bevelled or hollowed out on one side so '75 that it will press the coin against the side wall of the base-plate 3 during the rotation of the disc l. Base-plate 3 is provided with one or more apertures 7 and 8, the apertures 8 being smaller diameter than the apertures 7. Above the disc i is a stationary cover plate 9 to which are attached the pressure springs 10 andll which are centrally disposed respectively over the two apertures l and 8. On the bed-plate 81 (Figure 3) is rotatably mounted the paper roll 82 (Figure l) and on the shafts 83 and 84 the paper feedrolls 85 and 86. On the shaft 84 of the roll 85 bears the spring 87 whereby roll 86 is held contact with roll 85. Thus, the strip of paper passing between the two rolls 85 and 86 is moved along, as these rolls rotate. The roll 86 is provided with a segmental flange or flanges 85a adapted by contact with the roll 86 to separate roll 86 from roll 85, whereby, as will be described further on, the feeding of the paper strip is interrupted.

The roll 85 is provided at its lower end with a cam disk 88a (Figure 13) the cam groove 88 of which is engaged by a pin 91 on one of the arms of a two-arm lever 89, pivoted at 90. On the other arm of lever 89 is provided a pin 93 engaging the knife 94 (Figure 13) which cooperates with the fixed knife or cutting blade 95. On the spindle 83 is mounted a toothed wheel 96, with which meshes the sector 97 mounted on aspindle 98 which also carries a cam 100 and on its lower end the main drive wheel 99. A pin on a roller 101 which is held in a rod 102 engages with cam 100. On rod 102 is mounted a ring 103 with a spring 104 located above the same.

105 is a plate which is drilled at 106 to receive a bearing 106a of a spindle 10". which is provided with a slot 108 in which is inserted a spring controlled ledge 109. A sleeve 110 provided with a slot 111 and rigidly secured to the bearing 106a surrounds spindle 107.

The lower portion of the sleeve 110 is guided in a circular recess of the disk 11.2. Below the latter, in the base-plate 81, is a hole into which enters a discharge tube 113. The disk 112 has four radial guide grooves, in which move bars 114 having pins 114a engaging the cam grooves 1150. of a cam-disk 115 (Figures 14 and 15). The latter is rotatably mounted in the baseplate 81 and is provided with a toothed rim 116 meshing with the sector 117. If the latter is rotated as will be described further below, the cam-disk 115 will be rotated with result that the bars 114 are moved by means of the pins 114a guided in the cam grooves 115a. Because of the special arrangement of the loops distributed over the cams 1151, the bars 114 are successively moved inwards, to perform certain functions described further down. .The sector 11? is mounted on a shaft 118, on which shaft is also mounted, above said sector, a toothed wheel 119, which meshes with sector On the shaft 118, there is further mounted a toothed sector 120, meshing with the toothed wheel 121 rotatably mounted on shaft 122. The toothed wheel 121 meshes with a wheel 123 connected with the spindle 107.

A ring 124 is, by means of a pin 125, guided in the slot 111 of sleeve 110 and by said pin is connected with a strip-oii ring 126 which moves on the spindle 107 within the sleeve 110. More over, the ring 124 is provided on its periphery with a pin 127 engaging a slot 123 of the lever 129. The latter is pivotally mounted on the wall 131 and has a second slot into which enters a pin 130 provided on the rod 102 so that upon the latter being raised, the ring 124 likewise is raised. The paper strip 82, on its way from the knives 94, 95 to the sleeve 11% is guided in a guide-way 132 formed bytwo vertically arranged sheet metal pieces.

A toothed wheel 89 mounted on spindle 51 (Figs. 1 and 2) meshes with the driving wheel 99.

Above the lower bed plate 32 and on spindle 33 is mounted the tubular container plate 34 which rests on the adjustable table arranged beneath it. On the under side of this table 35 the same has formed integral therewith a tube 36 provided with teeth 37 meshing with the driving wheel 38. The tube 36 rotates in the bearing 39. The driving wheel 38 rotates on the spindle on which is provided a lever 41 having a handle 42, which travels over the plate 43 in which are provided distance holes 44. A finger 46 secured to plate 34 engages with a longitudinal slot on spindle 33, on the top of which is secured a wheel 47 which meshes with the toothed sector 48 mounted on the spindle 51 and driven by means of the coupling 24 (Figs. 1 and 2). A disengaging pin 4901 which operates the pawl 59 is provided on the toothed sector 48.

A segment 6 is cut out of the bed plate 3, into which cut-out portion is introduced a slide 6d containing the holes 7, 8. A cover 9 above the disc 4 carries springs 10, 11 on its lower surface above the holes 7 and 8. Magnet 9a is placed at the hole 8 where it is adapted to attract such coins passing over the hole 8 as are magnetic. Beneath the hole '7 is provided a discharge channel or chute 12. In the base-plate 3- is mounted. the shaft 13 (Figure 2), on which are loosely provided the two toothed wheels 14 and 15, with which mesh the pinions l6 and 17 (Figure 16). The pinion 17 is driven by the intermediate wheel 13 mounted above it on shaft 73, which wheel on the passing of a coin is always turned. The pinion 17 transmits the rotation to the lower counting wheel 15, on which is secured the finger The wheel 15 on its periphery is provided with a scale, for example from 1-50 or 1-100, permitting the number of the coins that have been counted to be read off. The finger 26, according to the divisions of the wheel 15, that is, after the counting of or 100 coins, advances the diametrically opposite pinion 16 by rotating the same the distance of one tooth with the result that on the scale of the wheel 14 operated by said pinion 16, the number of the finished coin packages is counted. The pinion 17 is enclosed by a cover .20 (Figure 2) wherein is secured a pin 19, which after each advance snaps into a notch or" the wheel 18, the purpose oi": said pin being simply to hold said wheel against rotation during the intervals between the successive stepby--step advances thereof. Above the pinion 16 there is mounted on the shaft 79 a feed wheel 21 engaged by the feed-lever 22 which is under the control of spring and the end or" which strikes the fork 23 thereby displacing the clutch 24.

In order that the latter may also beoperated after only half the number of coins fed by the pusher 5 and collected in the discharge tube 12 been counted, there may be provided on the pinion 15 a second finger 25 diametrically opposite the finger 26 (Figure 1), which also engages the pinion 16. By means of the two pressure rods 27 and 23, the finger 25 can be so displaced that it is moved into, or out of, engagement with the pinion 16; The two pressure bars 27 and 28 are always returned by the springs 29 and 30 to their original positions.

For holding the finger 25 in position, a pin 31 is provided which is under the control of a leafspring 31a on the under side of the pinion 15, which spring presses the said pin upwards.

The operation is as follows:

The tubular container 1 is filled with coins and as soon as the machine is put in operation (by means of .a crank, or a spring, or electrically) the spindle rotates disc 4 so that each of the pushers 5 thereof will carry forward one of the coins 2 dropping onto the base plate 3 from container 1, first guiding it over the aperture 3 under pressure of the spring 11 testing the coins for diameter. Coins of smaller size drop through the aperture 8 and the tube underneath the same. If the coin is of the proper size, it is pushed over the aperture 3. toward the aperture 7 and because of the pressure of spring 10, it drops through tube 12 into the tubular container.

When the required number of coins (50, 100 etc.) have been counted, the finger 26 of the counting wheel 15 will move the Wheel 21 thereby pressing the lever 22 against the lever 23 so that the coupling 24 will be engaged and the spindle 51 rotated, thereby rotating the wheel secured to it and the sector 48. When the latter meshes with the wheel 4'? and thereby advances the tubular container plate 34 to the extent of one divisionbringing an empty tubular container in front of the discharge tube 12, the wheel 80 meshes with the wheel 99 and thereby drives the spindle 98 together with the sector 97 and the cam disc 100 mounted on the spindle. Because of the engagement of sector 97 with wheel 96, the guide rollers 85 and 86 will be rotated and will feed the paper strip 82 disposed between them through the guideway 132 and between the knives 94, 95 into the slot 111 of sleeve 110. In the slot 108 (Figure of the spindle 107 is inserted the ledge 109 (Figure 7) provided with recesses 109a containing springs 109b, which tend to move said ledge outward against the inner wall of sleeve 110. The ledge 109 yields to this spring pressure as soon as the strip-off ring 126, which in Figures 10 and 11 is shown in its lower position, is raised within sleeve 110 above the upper end of the ledge. By this ledge, the paper strip 82'entering through the slot 111 is gripped and moved along the inner wall of the sleeve 110, being wound around the bolt 107, the latter being rotated as follows:

By the engagement of the clutch 24, the driving-connection between the shaft 51 and the driving shaft 51a is elfected (Figure 2). The shaft 51 carries the wheel 80 which meshes with the wheel 99 (Figure 3). The latter is mounted on the shaft 98, which carries the driving sector 97 above the plate 105, which sector will mesh with the wheel 119 on shaft '118, when being rotated thereby driving the wheel 120, the intermediate wheel 121 and the wheel 123 mounted on the upper journal of the spindle 107, all said wheels meshing with each other.

After the roll 85 has made a revolution, the segmental flanges 85a (Figures 3 and 4) force the spring-controlled roll 86 outward away from the roll 85, thereby interrupting the feeding of the paper-strip 82. The cam disk 88a concentrically disposed relative to roll 85 and fixedly connected therewith, is provided with a camguide 88 (Figures 4 and 13) wherein is guided the bell-crank 89 by means of a pin 91. Because of the loop 865 of the cam-guide 88, the lever 89 is rocked outward, so that the other end thereof is swung inward to move, by means of the pin 93, the knife 94 past the fixed knife 95 (Figure '13) thereby effecting cutting of the paper sheet 82.

The sector 117 mounted on the spindle 118, rotates because of its engagement with the toothed rim 116, the cam disc 115 and produces, by means of the pins 114a an alternate advance of the tongues 114, whereby .the lower end of the tubular container projecting beyond the spindle 107 and the sleeve, will be turned over and a bottom formed for said tubular container. The lever 129 which was held raised by the cam 100 will then be released and forced down by the pressure of spring 104 lowering the ring 124 and the stripping-off ring 126 connected thereto, thus bringing the tubular container through the discharge tube 113 to the tubular container plate 34. 1

In order to enable the tubular container to be placed higher or lower, according to the number and thickness of the coins, the tubular container plate 34 is mounted on an adjustable table 35. When the lever 41 is brought above the plate 43 into the corresponding distance hole 44, the register pin 42 will snap in, and because of the rotary movement of lever 41, spindle will be rotated and driving wheel 33 will be driven so that due to its engagement with the teeth 37 of the tube 36, the latter will be raised thereby raising the table 35 which is connected to the said tube. Thus, the tubular container plate 34 will be likewise raised to the correct distance.

By means of the finger 46 secured to the plate 34 and engaging with the longitudinal slot of the spindle 33, the spindle 33 will be rotated by the wheel 47 and the sector 48, the plate 34 will be rotated to a given extent and in this way, an empty tubular container will be advanced, while the filled container pushed further along will drop out through thedischarge tube.

In order to correctly and reliably close the tubular containers, the paper strip used for their manufacture is provided at the top and'at the bottom, as shown in Fig. 9, with wire stitching at given distances. This ensures not only a steadier and more secure closing, but also makes it impossible to open a roll without it being noticed.

The lever 63 enables empty tubular containers to be ejected without operating the apparatus. When lever 63 is moved, a pawl 65 secured to it engages with the teeth 66 provided on the spindle 33 and moves the lever 69 through the pin 68 working in the recess 67. This lever 63 is only used however for preventing irregularities from being made during the movement of the counting wheels 14, 15 into the zero position. Setting to Zero is brought about by turning the counting wheels by means of a crank which is inserted into the slots 76, 77. When the slots are uncovered, the counting wheel can be moved during the working of the machine so that a smaller number of coins might be put into the tubular container and the'latter could be counted as completely filled. In order to make this impossible, there is provided a closing cap 73, the ends 74, of which are situated over the slots 76, 77 and which prevent any access to them. The closing cap can be moved only by the operation of the lever 63 which, as has already been stated, will move the lever 69 and release the slots, but at the same time will move and discharge thetubular container which is being filled.

The pusher 5 brings a coin etc. which is fed from the pile stacked in the tubular container 1, first over the hole 8, and if the coin is smaller than that which is to be counted, it will drop into the discharge channel, otherwise it will pass over the hole 8 towards the hole 7 through which it will drop to pass through the discharge tube 12 into the tubular packing container. Before it leaves the hole 7, it will advance to the extent of one tooththe intermediate wheel 18 and thereby the counting wheel 14, that is to say, it will positively count. These holes 7 and 8 are provided in the slide 6a which is interchangeable, and because of the difference in the dimensions of the holes 7, 8, it is possible to use one and the same machine for any coins, counters etc. When the counting wheel 14 reaches the fiftieth or onehundredth tooth (another number may, of course,

be chosen according to requirements), that is to say, when 50 or 100 coins have been introduced into the tubular container, the finger 25 or 26 will move the pinion 16, which in its turn will operate the lever 22 by means of the feed wheel 21, and as the fork 23 is secure-d to the end of the said lever, the coupling 24 will be brought into engagement, and the spindle on which said coupling 24 is mounted will be caused to rotate. In order, however, to avoid the necessity of limiting the function beforehand to a given number, but, on the contrary, to render it possible to determine at any time the number of coins to be counted and packed in the same apparatus, the finger 25 is so mounted, that itcan be switched in or out by means of the pressure rods 27, Such fingers may, of course, be conveniently arranged also at other suitable points.

The clutch 2a is disconnected by the pin 4% provided on the sector 48 as follows:

After the clutch, due to the action of the lever 22 operated by the wheel 21, has been engaged (Figure 2) it is held engaged by the pawl 50 which is controlled by the spring 50a. That is to say, the spring 50a rotates the pawl 50 to cause the outer end 5% thereof to engage behind the fork 23 thereby to maintain the clutch 2e engaged. Now, if on the'clockwlse rotation of the toothed sector 48 the pin 49a comes to bear against the other bevelled end of the pawl 50, the latter is carried along in a counterclockwise direction releasing the fork 2. The disengagement oi the cluch 24 then takes place automatically under the action of the helical spring 2%.

The two different holes '7, 8 are provided for the purpose of eliminating smaller, that is to say, as a rule less valuable, coins, and of preventing them from getting into the tubular container. For exceptional cases, that is in the case of coins having different values but being the same diameter, thickness and weight, the magnet 9a is provided in the cover 9 directly next to hole to attract the coins of higher value thereby pre venting them from falling through the hole '7 like the coins of smaller value. As the magnet 90. stops short distance in front of the hole 8, the higher value coins will be released and drop through the hole 8 into the tubular container provided for them.

I claim:

1. In a machine of the character described, coin packaging comprising a sleevehaving a slot through which a sheet of wrapping paper is adapted to be introduced into the sleeve, a rotatable spindle within the sleeve, yieldable means carried by the spindle and urged con-- stantly outwardly therelroin for cooperation with the sleeve to grip the paper and form the same into a tube, for iolding the lower end of said tube to close the means for transferring said t from said sleeve to a position to receive the coins.

e oi the character dr cribed, as to be sleeve having a longiough wh 'h a sheet oi wrapping be introduced into the sleeve, a spindle rot table within the sleeve, and yield able pa er gripping means carried spindle and urged constantly outwardly thcrei om for cooperation wih the ab ve whereby rotation of the spindle relative to the is eiiective to wind the @1333) into tubular form.

3. In a machine oi the character described, a tube to receive coins to be paclzag "n a sleeve a longitudinal slot through which a of wrapping paper is adapted to be deduced into the sleeve, a spindle rotatable within the sleeve, a paper gripping element r form of a plate mounted in a slot in the idle for cooperation with the sleeve to effect Vfiih. 1g of the paper into tubular form by rotation of the indie relative to the sleeve, and spring means for urging plate outward to grip the paper.

a. in a machine of the character described, means for forming a tube to receive coins to be packaged comprising a sleeve having a longi- 2. In a 1'; means ior f0 packaged cs, tudinal slot t paper is ada' tudinal slot through which a sheet of wrapping paper is adapted to be introduced into the sleeve, a spindle rotatable-within the sleeve, a paper gripping element carried by the spindle, yieldable means urging said element outward relative to th; spindle so as to grip the paper, whereby rotation of the spindle relative to the sleeve is efiective to wind the paper into tubular form, and means movable longitudinally of the spindle and by such movement being operable to depress said element to release the tube and to efiect ejectio oi the tube from the sleeve.

5. The combination of elements as set forth in claim t in which the means to depress the paper gripping element and to effect ejection of the tube from the sleeve comprises a strip-oil ring interposed between the sleeve and the spindle. 6. The combination of elements as set forth in claim i in which the means to depress the paper gripping element and to effect ejection of the tube from the sleeve comprises a strip-oh ring interposed between the sleeve and thespinand in which longitudinal movement is im: n" ted to se'd ring by a second ring slidably nted on the outside of the sleeve and con w hthe stripwir ring by a pin extending e slot the sleeve. 7 I in a machine of the character described, tube forming and ejecting means having a fixed location, means rotatable relatively to said tube means-to receive tubes ejected from said means, means for delivering coins to a tube supported on said rotatable means, n cans whereby rotation of said rotatable means p cits delivery of the tubes from saidlatt-er ineain, and means to rotate said rotatable means intermittently to simultaneously bring a vacant tube receiving space on saidrotatable ans into position to receive a tube ejected from tube forming means, to bring a tube into to receive coins from said coin delivery means, and to bring another tube into which lave been delivered to a position for defrom rotatable means.

The combinaion as set forth in claim 7 in which. means are provided for moving the rotatable means axially to accommodate tubes of different lengths. l

9. In a machine of the character described, a horizontally disposed non-rotatable table, a plate rotatably mounted on said table and provided with an annular series of spaced tube receiving openings, means for intermittently rotating said through angles corresponding to the spacing of said openings, tube forming means having a fixed. location above said plate, coin delivery means having a fixed location above said plate and so spaced iron said tube iorming means that when one of the plate openings is alined with the latter means to receive a tube therefrom another op --1ng having therein a tube previously formed and delivered thereto by the tube forming means is alined Wit the coin delivery means to have coins ripplied thereto, the table having an opening so located that another opening of the alines therewith when other of the plate openings are alined with the tube forming and the coin delivery means, respectively, to permit a previously filled tube to drop through the table.

10. The combination as set forth in claim 9 in which means are provided for vertically adcoin delivery means, tube forming and ejecting means, means for transferring tubes ejected from said tube forming means to a position to receive coins supplied by said coin delivery means,driving means for said tube forming means, and means whereby the supplyiof a predetermined number of coins to a previously forming tube effects operation of said tube forming means and transfer of a tube from said tube forming means to said coin delivery means.

12. In a machine of the character described, coin delivery means, tube forming and ejecting means, means for transferring tubes ejected from said tube forming means to a position to receive coins supplied by said coin delivery means, a power shaft, a normally released clutch connection between said power shaft and said tube forming means, means whereby the supply of a predetermined number of coins to a previously formed tube effects engagement of said clutch to cause operation of said tube forming means, means whereby a tube is transferred from said tube forming means to said coin delivery means during forming and ejection of a tube, and means whereby the clutch is subsequently disengaged and operation of the tube transfer means stopped.

SIEGMUND CHIGER. 

